Trainers and facilitators
Bill Bruty
Bill
Bruty has been a professional fundraiser since 1984 and worked as
Director of External Affairs for BTCV, as Marketing Director for
Children's Aid Direct and as Community Fundraising Manager for Scope.
He has tutored in fundraising and management for the Directory of
Social Change and the Open University Business School, and has
delivered training in fundraising to over 200 clients, ranging from
UNICEF UK and ActionAid to small community based agencies in
the UK, Ecuador, Ethiopia, Uganda and Tanzania.
Since 2002 he has run his own business, Fundraising Training Ltd, which specializes in training people who are new to a career in fundraising. Bill provides strategic advice and mentoring to national organisations such as the National Union of Students, Diabetes UK, the Brooke and the Medical Foundation for Care of Victims of Torture.
John Cammack
John Cammack is an independent consultant and trainer. He was Head of international financeat Oxfam GB and Senior lecturer in accounting and financial management at Oxford BrookesUniversity. Histraining and consultancy work includes financial management fornon-specialists, training trainers, and programme and financial managementreviews for southern partners. John has worked internationally with a range ofrelief and development agencies, including the Aga Khan Foundation, AmnestyInternational, Camfed, European Commission, Homeless International, Intrac,WaterAid and VSO. John isauthor of Building capacity through financialmanagement (Oxfam, 2007), Basic accountingfor small groups (Oxfam, 2003) and Financialmanagement for development (Intrac, 2000). John is a qualified accountant,manager and teacher and specialises in the non-profit sector. He holdsa MSc in international development management and an MBA. www.johncammack.net
Ian Chandler
Ian Chandler is founder of The Pressure Group, a consultancy working with non-for-profit organisations to improve their effectiveness in advocacy, campaigning, communications and management. He has worked in advocacy for over 25 years, and has been Campaigns Manager for Oxfam GB and Media Director for Amnesty International. As a consultant, he has worked with over 70 leading NGOs in 47 countries in Europe, America, Asia, Africa, the Middle East and the Caribbean.
Vicky Cosstick
Vicky is an independent consultant and mentor working in the NGO and voluntary sectors. She has over 20 years experience and specialises in the facilitation of change with individuals, senior management and other teams, and whole organisations. She has facilitated large groups and conferences, peer learning sets and processes, strategic thinking, planning and review, communities of practice and groups where there have been communication difficulties. She has a particular interest in helping groups and organisations to learn better. Vicky is an organisational learning consultant to the Bond Learning and Training Team and has the University of Surrey MSc in Change Agent Skills.
Eleanor Cozens
Eleanor
Cozens has 20 years experience of working in the international
development sector. She has been responsible for country programmes
for CARE in Comoros and Iraq and for VSO in Sri Lanka and the
Maldives. She has recently done in-depth work developing the
principles and practice for Sightsavers International's programme
partnership policy, including tools, guidelines and an organisational
induction programme, training manual and materials.
Eleanor has worked with a wide range of partner organisations: government ministries and institutions, NGOs, disabled people's organisations and small community-based organisations. She has developed and delivered training courses for Sightsavers and VSO volunteers, with an emphasis on practical implications and examples. Eleanor now works as an independent consultant on a variety of assignments: evaluations, briefing papers, policy drafting, and facilitation, and she retains a strong interest in partnership working.
Jonathan Ellis
Jonathan Ellis is Director of Policy and Development at the British Refugee Council.
He is also author of Campaigning for Success - how to cope if you
achieve your campaign goal (NCVO 2007), is an external adviser on
NCVO's Certificate in Campaigning and leads training sessions on
INTRAC's global advocacy courses. He is a member of NCVO's Campaigning
Effectiveness advisory group and is a campaign coach for the Sheila
McKechnie Foundation. He was for five years the Director of the Empty Homes Agency, an independent national charity, and before that was a campaign manager for OXFAM.
A qualified teacher, Jonathan has just become a visiting lecturer on the MA in political campaigning and reporting at City University.
Louisa Gosling
Louisa
has worked in international development for over 20 years, including 10
years at Save the Children. During that time, drawing from experience
of best practice, she developed practical toolkits for fieldworkers on
the assessment, monitoring, review and evaluation of projects. This
turned into a successful publication widely used by NGOs worldwide (Toolkits. A practical guide to planning, monitoring, evaluation and impact assessment,
Save the Children, 2003). Louisa has run courses and acted as
consultant on the project cycle, monitoring and evaluation for Bond and
other organisations including, most recently, the University of
Westminster and Riders for Health. She has also worked on advocacy
projects for Save the Children and on public sector evaluations in the
UK for the Tavistock Institute of Human Relations. She now works with
WaterAid as an adviser on mainstreaming equity and inclusion into the
organisation and its work.
Angela James
Angela
runs the Bond EC Funding Advice Line, giving information and
guidance on all aspects of applying and reporting to the European
Commission. She also works freelance with NGOs in the UK, Europe and
developing countries as a trainer and funding adviser. Before that she
worked for several years in sub-Saharan Africa for the international
development NGO ACORD, first as a manager of overseas development
projects and then as fundraising co-ordinator dealing with a range of
institutional donors, trusts, foundations and NGOs.
Greta Jensen
Greta has 20 years experience in technical and management consultancy for a variety of INGOs, working with education, environmental regeneration, appropriate technology and community development programmes, as well as development education initiatives in Europe. Clients have included the European Commission, Auroville International UK, Plan UK, Plan Pakistan, Y-Care, CAMFED, ACTSA and the Development Education Association. She draws on her Masters in Psychosynthesis Psychotherapy from Middlesex University to bring an experiential dimension to learning and has developed a unique process approach to logical framework analysis and project cycle management with groups of diverse stakeholders in the field.
Dee Jupp
Dee Jupp is a social development
consultant who has lived and worked for extensive periods in Bangladesh and
Jamaica, helping governments, NGOs, social movements and community-based
organisations to adopt participatory approaches. She has led participatory
research and training in Tanzania, Kenya, China, Indonesia, the Caribbean and
Bangladesh. She is also an associate lecturer on the Open University's MSc
course in Development Context and Practice.
Her approach to participation is both practical and innovative. Her recent work has focused on enhancing citizens' voice and understanding the perspectives of people living in poverty through immersion in rural villages. She has developed handbooks for community participation at all stages in of the project cycle in community driven programmes in Jamaica.
Iris Keenan
Iris is Supporter Development Manager at Oxfam, where she has implemented the rebranding of Oxfam's communications to its supporter base. She worked for World Vision for seven years, as a campaign manager, team leader and Supporter Relationship Manager. She holds diplomas in direct marketing and business economics.
Maureen O'Flynn
Maureen
is a freelance consultant who has worked in the development sector for
over 25 years. She has extensive experience of both the development and
humanitarian contexts.
Maureen's key areas of expertise include rights-based approaches to development, impact assessments, organisational development, change management and strategic planning. She has worked extensively in East Africa and South East Asia, as well as many shorter assignments in many other parts of the world. Her client base includes small, local NGOs, INGOs such as Save the Children, Action Aid and Oxfam, and UN agencies, such as UNICEF and UNHCR.
Jane Pleace
Jane is now a freelance trainer having recently been Head of Marketing for Send a Cow, where she led on a rebranding which reduced negative publicity for the organisation by 99%. Before this she was Oxfam's Head of Relationship Marketing, where she oversaw the launch of Oxfam Unwrapped, led Oxfam's Tsunami appeal and co-developed the "I'm in" campaign. This followed five years as Head of Loyalty Marketing at World Vision. She holds postgraduate diplomas in marketing and management studies.
Costanza de Toma
Costanza worked in Brussels for 4 years as assistant to an Italian MEP and heading the office of Marie Stopes International. She worked for Bond as EU Policy Officer and was elected to represent Bond at CONCORD for 2004-2007. Costanza has an insider's knowledge of EU institutions and first hand experience of successfully influencing the EU on the effectiveness of aid, the participation of civil society organisations, child rights, HIV/AIDS and sexual and reproductive health.
Duane Raymond
Duane founded FairSay in 2004 to help campaigners and campaigning supporters get a fair say in shaping their world. He worked as Oxfam GB's pioneering eCampaigning Manager from 2001-2004 where he helped Oxfam GB and Oxfam internationally achieve a massive increase in the number of campaigning supporters online. Since 2001, Duane has worked on national, global and coalition campaigns including some of the most successful campaigns in the last decade. Clients have included Greenpeace, Oxfam, Amnesty International, WWF, NSPCC, Make Poverty History, Stop Climate Chaos, GCAP and many others. Duane also initiated and organises the eCampaigning Forum, held annually since 2002.
Jacinta Sweeney
Jacinta has more than ten
years experience in international development. Three of these years were
spent with VSO in Cameroon and Nigeria working on education and HIV and AIDS
programmes, from where she moved on to a variety of roles within VSO internationally.
These experiences gave Jacinta the chance to work in and on
various aspects of development in South East Asia
and the Horn of Africa. Having managed various elements of VSO's Participation
& Governance programme in Ethiopia and
Canada, Jacinta was then
Advantage Africa's programme manager for disability and HIV/AIDS
projects in Kenya and Uganda. She
is now a freelance trainer and facilitator and has designed and delivered
courses for Bond, NIDOS, VSO, Practical Action and The Brooke Animal Sanctuary
amongst others. Jacinta has an MA in international development from the
Institute for Development Policy and Management, University
of Manchester and a PGCE in secondary
education from the University
of Glasgow.
